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Public Health, Rights, and Protest in the Age of COVID-19
By Jennifer TunnicliffeProtestors have rallied against measures implemented by provincial governments, and movements such as The Line Canada and March to Unmask have used public demonstrations and...
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Myanmar Illustrators Unite To Distribute Protest Art for Free
By The Stand News A group of 30 artists from Myanmar uploaded more than a hundred protest posters to the website yangon.design for free print and use by those rallying against the military coup. In...
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Trinidad & Tobago’s Problem With Gender-Based Violence
By Jada Steuart and Janine Mendes-Franco Twenty-three-year-old Andrea Bharatt went missing on January 29, last seen alive as she and a friend got into a taxi after work. The friend made it home; when...
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Jamaica’s First Vaccination Day Brings Optimism, Though COVID-19 Numbers...
By Emma Lewis On March 10, the first anniversary of COVID-19’s arrival in Jamaica, a senior public health nurse who confessed to being “afraid of injections” was the first national to receive the...
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Twitter Could Be Fully Blocked in Russia Within the Next Month
By Tanya Lokot The microblogging service Twitter could be fully blocked in Russia within the next month, according to Russian state media and internet regulator Roskomnadzor. The regulator said on...
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“Why Don’t We Complain?” by William F. Buckley, Jr.: A Brief Analysis
In “Why Don’t We Complain?,” William F. Buckley, Jr. (1961), arguably the most influential modern conservative intellectual, proffers a clarion call to seize the power of purposive complaining. Too...
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Reading and Tweeting Are Not Enough, but Neither Is Protesting
Don’t worry. This will not be yet another essay lamenting the sometimes performative nature of white antiracist activism since the killing of George Floyd. First, we already have enough of those, most...
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Indigenous Women, Prison Activism, and the 1983 Kent Hunger Strike
The Graphic History Collective recently released RRR #28 by Tania Willard, Sarah Nickel, and Eryk Martin. The poster looks at Indigenous political activism and the 1983 Kent Prisoner’s Hunger Strike...
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Why Indian Farmers’ Protests Are Being Called a ‘Satyagraha’ – Which Means...
By Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University For the past few months, farmers protesting in India’s capital, New Delhi, have been demanding the repeal of three farm laws that were passed last year. These...
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Performative Rage Is Not Activism
Here’s a heads-up, which may come as a shock to some: radical activism is not about seeing how many four-letter words you can cram on a placard. It’s not about spray-painting BLM on a Starbucks, or...
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Ten Years After Bahrain’s Failed ‘Spring’, Political Detainees Are Suffering
By Dahlia Kholaif Ten years after the Arab Spring-inspired protests erupted in Bahrain but failed to bring positive change, political detainees continue to suffer amidst worsening prison conditions...
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Cuban Artists Fight Repression Through Song, Social Media and Hunger Strikes
By Luis Rodriguez and Allison Janos This article was written anonymously by an author in Cuba, using the fake name “Luis Rodriguez” Historically, the political system in Cuba has repressed any form...
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Experts Warn Turkey’s Ambitious Istanbul Kanal Will Result in Environmental...
By Arzu Geybullayeva and Doga Celik Istanbul Kanal, the planned 45-km artificial waterway connecting the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara, is probably Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s most...
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Everything You Need To Know
Everything you need to know about super-groups can be summed up in 5 words; Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young (4 words if you replace the word and with the symbol &). They might be the only...
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The Canary Islands Face Tensions Over Migrants’ Arrival
By Laura Carraso Alvarez and Teodora C. Hasegan The COVID-19 pandemic has not stopped the increase in migrant arrivals in Europe that began with the turbulent exodus of millions of people from Syria,...
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Why Colombia’s Unrest Will Not Stop Soon
By Angelo Cardona The demonstrations in Colombia were triggered by the proposal for a new tax reform that sought to raise money for the economic recovery generated as a result of the pandemic. A...
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Community Pantries Inspire Hope Amid Pandemic and Economic Crisis in the...
By Karlo Mongaya A community-initiated food bank, established to serve the hungry amid the pandemic and its economic fallout, has inspired various mutual aid efforts across the Philippines. More...
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Inside Myanmar: Testimonies of Survival and Resistance
By Global Voices South East Asia Three months after grabbing power, the Myanmar military government continues to face questions about its legitimacy to rule the country. Despite ousting elected...
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The Legacy of Militarism in Latin America’s Police: Shoot To Kill
By Connectas and Liam Anderson In broad daylight and in full view of everyone, a woman lay down on the ground with a police officer’s knee on the back of her neck on a street in the tourist resort of...
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Who Is Artist Luis Manuel Otero, Symbol of the Resistance and Thorn in the...
By Luis Rodriguez and Allison Janos This article was written anonymously by an author in Cuba, using the fake name “Luis Rodriguez” While the Congress of the Communist Party of Cuba was held...
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